Nominations close in South Australia

Nominations were declared yesterday afternoon for South Australia's 47 House of Assembly seats as well as the Legislative Council contest. There was a very large...

Tasmanian redistribution release – live

1:55 - I'm going to actually finish this liveblog here, with a short video running through the changes. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dIrE0I8HLxk 1:24 - What I hope will be my...

South Australia – One Nation ahead of Liberals in candidate announcements

Nominations will be announced next Monday for the upcoming South Australian state election. As we get closer to that deadline, I've been updating my list...

14 is not enough

According to reporting in the Sydney Morning Herald today, and from other conversations with journalists, it sounds like the federal Labor government is on the...

Podcast #163 – Home ownership, renting and voting

How does owning your home or renting impact on how you vote? For today's podcast, Ben was joined by Shaun Ratcliff and Josh Goddard...

Farrer by-election coming soon

Sussan Ley has announced that she will be retiring from politics following her loss of the Liberal leadership this morning. That means there will be...

Podcast #162 – Thailand swings to the right

In last Sunday's Thai general election, voters swung strongly to current prime minister Anutin's Bhumjaithai Party, or BJT. In this podcast, Ben...

Two more by-elections coming up

Two different politicians announced their retirements today due to health reasons, causing two by-elections that are worth watching. Kat McNamara won the Northern Territory seat...

Ending the OPV-CPV wars

One of the most common arguments regarding Australian electoral systems concerns whether voters are required to number every box on their ballot paper in...

In Queensland, OPV gives and OPV takes away

The current LNP state government in Queensland was elected on a promise of restoring the Optional Preferential Voting (OPV) system used in the state...